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    Nantucket whalers and the Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream

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    HistoricNantucketSpring18UnchartedWaters.pdf (5.197Mb)
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    2018-04
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    Richardson, Philip L.  Concept link
    Adams, Nathan T.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10642
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    https://nha.org/research/nantucket-history/historic-nantucket-magazine/a-tradition-of-science-and-exploration/
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     Franklin-Folger chart; Gulf Stream 
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    Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2018. This article is posted here by permission of Nantucket Historical Association for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Historic Nantucket 68, no. 1 (2018): 17-24.
     
    Also includes: The search for the “lost” Franklin-Folger chart by Philip L. Richardson
     
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    Historic Nantucket 68, no. 1 (2018): 17-24
     

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